Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... (Item #21378)

New York: Duell, Sloane, & Pearce. Hardcover. Very good in a Good dust jacket. Sixth printing, with no date on title page; copyright 1948. 263 pp, plus and additional 64 pp of photographs. Topographic map of Machu Picchu and vicinity on the front endpapers. Previous owner's address stamp on front..... (Item #21875)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Translated by Basil Creighton. 190 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. An as-new copy in a clean dust jacket with slight edgewear. Documents two major expeditions into the jungles between Palenque and Copan on the Yucatan..... (Item #13248)

Gainesville, FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca, with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. (36) pp, stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28..... (Item #14777)

[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... (Item #20734)

Soft cover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the original pamphlet printed in London in 1743. Stapled binding, printed on faux-parchment. Clean, tight, unmarked. "Bitter vindication of [Knowles'] conduct in the disastrous Cartagena expedition, during which he served as surveyor and engineer of the British fleet" (Swann). (Item #12679)

New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Sunning to top 1/8 ionch of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some chipping to the top of the spine, is lightly rubbed along the joints and at the corners, and..... (Item #20666)

London: Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. Hardcover. Very good. Square 16mo, 112 pp, plus [13] blank pages at the back for memoranda and log; many photographic illustrations, including 2 folding panoramas, a folding color map and a table of distances. Early owner's inscription on the front free endpaper; short tear..... (Item #14710)

Quito, Ecuador: Pan American Society of Tropical Research. Softcover. Fair. Undated, but c. 1945 (per OCLC). 90 pp, in original printed wrappers. Complete, but wappers heavily chipped and edgeworn, with some staining along the spine, small tears. Internals unmarked, paper tanned. A vocabulary of the Quichua (Quechua) language, with each..... (Item #17419)

Mexico: Coleccion Distrito Federal, 1988. Softcover. Very good. Text in Spanish. 74 pp, with color illustrations from photographs, in original illustrated wrappers. Gift inscription on front endpaper; else clean and sound with light handling wear. (Item #15023)